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WOW!!!....thanks cmor....once again I thought i knew what I needed to do and was wrong again....I dont know what I would do without you guys here in AA so thanks everybody.....I was headed towards 1lb/g of LR I didnt know it should be 1-1/2 to 2. That changes things a little. I need about...

I added the fish because at the time the ammonia was only at about 1ppm and the LFS said that wasnt too bad and the damsels are a pretty hardy fish and would be ok with it that low. He did tell me that the damsels are a little territorial but he said that a tank that big they should be...

My tank threw a curve ball at me.....once agian I thought I had it all figured out and I knew what was suppose to happen but it didnt work out that way. Here's what I did and what happened. About three weeks ago I got my 135g tank set up and running and I put the dead LR that I got with the...

few more pics Thanks everyone.....I didnt think it turned out too bad for my first one. I added about 30lbs of LR today and was planning on getting just a few of the clean up crew because I was told that I need to get at least a few in there so that the brown algae didnt get away from me and...

Well I finally got my first SW set up. I dont have anything live in it yet other than a few critters that came in the live sand that I put in the sump. When I bought the tank (off of Craigs List) the LR that came with it wasnt so live anymore but I think that is working out ok because the...

well my theory was that by speading it over three pipes on each over flow it would distrubute the water evenly over the balls. I thought I had the plumbing on this project figured out and well....I thought wrong. After talking with the pro at the LFS, I am not going to use the bio balls after...

thanks Well that makes sense......kinda new at this......thank you

I just bought my first salt water tank and just before I did I stumbled across this forum and wow what a big help this has been. My experience with SW is about the same as forums......ZERO!!! I've read enough threads til I think I might actually manage to get this thing going but just today I...